<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">No, he can?t perform miracles, but he?s a Hall of Fame-caliber coach and can change the Knicks around and big time. The teams that get Larry Brown get better by an average of 9 games and even then, we?d be 42-40 which could be good enough for 8th seed depending on tie-breakers.</div>
Not all of his teams got better by nine games. Some got better by a couple some got better by alot so the Knicks arent guaranteed to win nine more games. Also I'd rather be dead last in the NBA than seeded 8th in the playoffs these days. At least with the former you have a good chance at getting the number one pick. But with the latter you're guaranteed to leave in the first round and be stuck with a mid first round pick.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">Their perimeter defense might be bad, but Larry Brown is a great defensive coach and can make them more defensive-minded. We also have two shot blocking centers in the middle which can bail us out, too.</div>
You can lead a horse to water...As good as Larry Brown might be he cannot make them play defense. He can try to make them more defensive minded but I seriously doubt it's going to work on Marbury, Crawford and Q.
James is foul prone and Frye is not going to intimidate anybody.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">Quentin Richardson is a good outside shooter and like it or not, so is Tim Thomas. Jamal Crawford is a good outside shooter and despite his terrible shots, he shot 36% from downtown which is good. Larry Brown should also help improve his shot selection.</div>
Richardson isnt that good of an outside shooter. Hell Houston on one leg is better than him. TT shot pretty well in the second half of the season I'm not going to try to lie. But he didnt take that many shots behind the arc so I dont know how well his percentages would do if he had to take more. As for Crawford I'm starting to believe he'll never learn a good shot from a bad shot. I dont know if it's his basketball IQ or what.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">The chemistry comes in training camp. Now that we?ll be able to have one, it will be fine. When one player is struggling because of family crisis? another one sulking in Memphis, two captains are fighting and the third one is injured, the coaches being switched up and two new players just come in, the chemistry is going to be shaky, no questions. Chemistry
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Please. I feel for TT but his family tragedies didnt affect his play. He was lousy before this season and he was lousy this season. He was the same old TT to me except this season he actually had some sort of excuse. Chemistry is more than playing with someone else for a long time. Chemistry cant be taught or explained. You either have it or you dont. The Knicks had chemistry with Van Horn in the line up. As one writer put it the Knicks had "chemistry in spades" but Marbury couldnt see past his own ego and got rid of him and ever since then the team hasnt had any chemisty.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">I think that?s mainly due to your pessimistic ways of looking at the Knicks.</div>
Well after this pathetic season can you blame me? I was probably the most optimistic person here until I woke up. Besides someone has to balance you out. Your optimism is sickening.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">But the Knicks have improved so much more, in my opinion. We?ve gotten 3 NBA-ready players ion the draft, a 7-foot center who is realizing his full potential and will help us out defensively, and the best coach in the league right now. The Cavaliers got better as did the Bucks, but we did as well and we should be on their level next season.</div>
Seven footer just realizing his full potential?? This is the sickeningly optimistic stuff I was talking about. Jerome James does not deserve that contract. He has underachieved his entire life and then in two playoff series against competition who wasnt even 100% he stepped it up during a contract year. That's what is called a 'money run'. I still like the signing because it gives Sweetney a shot to play his normal position and gives him an opportunity to turn into a premier power forward in the East. So considering the Knicks needed a big man in the worst way and considering Isiah doesnt give a damn about the cap it was a decent move.
You're talking about the draft picks we've acquired and their probably not going to play much except for Frye. Larry Brown is notorius for not playing rookies. To be honest I'm worried about the development of Ariza, Robinson and David Lee. Their probably not going to get much action. The Cavaliers have improved much more than the Knicks did as did the Bucks.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">That remains to be seen; I feel that we are on the same level as the Cavaliers and the Bucks now that we?ve gotten Larry Brown and Jerome James.</div>
Wishful thinking. Jerome James isnt that great, the Knicks were just that bad. Pachulia would have probably been a better player to go after. He's pretty big as well, younger, and would have been alot cheaper. The Cavs added a first all team defender in Larry Hughes, Donyell Marshall, their going to bring back Big Z, they still have Gooden and of course LeBron. I'm not sure what's going on at the point position but they'll think of something. And the Bucks added Simmons and Bogut to the team their much improved as well. Larry Brown is a good coach but in the end it all comes down to the players and the Knicks just dont have the players to do anything significant. Correction the Knicks have the talent and players they just dont have team.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">Okay, the Raptors barely got better if any at all and we got much better and we?ll do worse than them? How so?</div>
We're not going to do worse. We're going to beat the Raptors in a rat race and become the rulers of the depths of the Atlantic. Although his is one race I'm not sure I want to win.
Anyway I think Isiah Thomas should be fired.
